My website had a lot of pages. No one read them all. This one had one paragraph on a magnetic coin. No one ever wrote about the subject and I...
I bought this one before I started cataloging my collection on computer in 1987 from one of the early FSR lists for $5. It was my first coin that...
This reminds me of the English saying "Even the darkest cloud has a silver lining" but approaches the thought from the opposite perspective. I...
Dane is an interesting person of great value to the hobby. This interview covers how she came to be 'Wildwinds':...
So far, I have been invited to and attended three club meetings in places I do not live and in the next few weeks am giving programs to two of...
I wish I knew that one. Of course there will be different answers for different reigns whith some being more common left amd some very rare. Of...
Mine is 0.45g. [ATTACH] 0.45 x 40 = 18g. My M is 17.3g. That is close enough for government work especially considering the wear on the...
The problem I see here is cleaning extremely can muddle the ID of the coin. In this case I read IMP MAX____NVSPFAVG. In the gap is either IMI or...
It would be interesting to know what coins were known to the maker of the Paduan copy. They must have had access to a very nice one.
Welcome, you seem to be the sort of collector who will fit right in here. We do have a few people who admit there are coins that don't quite...
Nickel was not used again for coins for 2000 years. The alloy was about 25% nickel and 75% copper as I recall. There are only a few types of...
Is there a coin celebrating ostracism?
How common are Claudius sestertii with the mark on the reverse? I find it interesting that most seem to be marked in the same place for the type...
Good job, the long form mintmark is a special one.
Do Flavian 'special' sestertii come untooled? Sometimes I wonder.
I suppose it is fun to play 'what if' but I suspect that, in this case, Maximus would have been killed by the Praetorian Guard and Septimius...
This is not voting but trial. My junky fourree is worn to the point that the AC (not guilty/guilty) on the tablet to the right is lost. There are...
Two of the holes line up. The third one took a journey across the coin on one side only so Kiaora is quite correct. I am not skilled at this...
We should remember that ownership of a coin does not include ownership of any images of that coin taken in the last 2000 years so it is quite...
I continue to maintain that the easiest way to get a clean even black background is to prevent light from falling on the black (velvet, paper,...
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